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The book of Revelation mentions 144,000 chosen here,
Then I heard the number... 144,000. (Revelation 7:4 [NIV])
These follow the lamb, who is Jesus Christ, wherever he goes,
...They follow the Lamb wherever he goes... (Revelation 14:4 [NIV])
Just as the elect, who are gathered at the second coming of Jesus Christ, will then always be with the Lord,
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 [ESV])
The 144,000 are also called first fruits,
...They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. (Revelation 14:4 [NIV])
Just as the elect are also called a first fruits,
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. (James 1:18 [ESV])
The 144,000 also have a seal,
saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” (Revelation 7:3 [ESV])
Just as the elect have the seal of the holy spirit,
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, (Ephesians 1:13 [ESV])
The 144,000 are also purchased,
And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been purchased from the earth. (Revelation 14:3 [NASB])
Just as the elect are purchased,
you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. (1 Corinthians 6:20 [NIV])
Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. (Acts 20:28 [NIV])
The 144,000 are also virgins who will not defile themselves with women,
These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins... (Revelation 14:4 [NIV])
Just as the elect will remain virgins at the resurrection, for the elect do not marry nor are given in marriage,
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. (Matthew 22:30 [ESV])
The 144,000 chosen are Israelites,
Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. (Revelation 7:4 [NIV])
Just as the elect are called Jews, inwardly,
On the contrary, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart--by the Spirit, not the letter...(Romans 2:29 [HCSB])
For even those who are Gentiles, are all grafted into the one olive tree of Israel, and will one day, whether Jew or Gentile, all be called Israel,
After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree! I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. (Romans 11:24-26 [NIV])
And just as the 144,000 chosen have already been numbered, so has God already chosen who will be his from the foundation of the world,
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love (Ephesians 1:4 [ESV])
For the elect, who are the remnant chosen by favor,
So then also in the present time a remnant according to choice of favor takes place. (Romans 11:5 [ABP])
"For many are invited, but few are chosen." (Matthew 22:14 [NIV])
Are the small number of 144,000 chosen.
Then I heard the number... 144,000. (Revelation 7:4 [NIV])
These follow the lamb, who is Jesus Christ, wherever he goes,
...They follow the Lamb wherever he goes... (Revelation 14:4 [NIV])
Just as the elect, who are gathered at the second coming of Jesus Christ, will then always be with the Lord,
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 [ESV])
The 144,000 are also called first fruits,
...They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. (Revelation 14:4 [NIV])
Just as the elect are also called a first fruits,
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. (James 1:18 [ESV])
The 144,000 also have a seal,
saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” (Revelation 7:3 [ESV])
Just as the elect have the seal of the holy spirit,
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, (Ephesians 1:13 [ESV])
The 144,000 are also purchased,
And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been purchased from the earth. (Revelation 14:3 [NASB])
Just as the elect are purchased,
you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. (1 Corinthians 6:20 [NIV])
Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. (Acts 20:28 [NIV])
The 144,000 are also virgins who will not defile themselves with women,
These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins... (Revelation 14:4 [NIV])
Just as the elect will remain virgins at the resurrection, for the elect do not marry nor are given in marriage,
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. (Matthew 22:30 [ESV])
The 144,000 chosen are Israelites,
Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. (Revelation 7:4 [NIV])
Just as the elect are called Jews, inwardly,
On the contrary, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart--by the Spirit, not the letter...(Romans 2:29 [HCSB])
For even those who are Gentiles, are all grafted into the one olive tree of Israel, and will one day, whether Jew or Gentile, all be called Israel,
After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree! I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. (Romans 11:24-26 [NIV])
And just as the 144,000 chosen have already been numbered, so has God already chosen who will be his from the foundation of the world,
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love (Ephesians 1:4 [ESV])
For the elect, who are the remnant chosen by favor,
So then also in the present time a remnant according to choice of favor takes place. (Romans 11:5 [ABP])
"For many are invited, but few are chosen." (Matthew 22:14 [NIV])
Are the small number of 144,000 chosen.
